hi, i've got a problem (doesn't everyone). I was trying to do a software mod on my xbox and accidentally tried to create linux partition in drive F:. As I found out my drive only had 8 gigs (so F: is non-existent) and it screwed up hard drive's partition table, so it would no longer boot up. deciding to go the modchip route, i got and installed eXecuter 2.3Lite, flashed bios, changed the harddrive to a bigger one and am in a process of getting xbox to play with it. after reading some posts about upgrading HD, i found out that i need certain files from my old HD (which obviously i can not use). I found most of the .bin files on Slayer's CD, together with evox Dash. I was also able to create hddinfo.txt, since i've backed up my hard disk info before doing soft mod. The only file i am missing is 'hddkey.bin', which i can't seem to find anywhere. question: is this file HD specific (i hope not) or can it be created (i have the output of xbox_tool -a). or am i out of luck and should throw my xbox out the window any help would buy you a beer -- stanley
when i upgraded my hard drive i just stuck slayers in and select the option to rebuild retail hard drive and it did everything for me then i installed evox and it booted just fine
ok, problem is resolved... i had to reflash my bios again (it seems something gone awry the first time) and then rebuilt HD. It seems to be working now
